On 7 and 8 June 2011 representatives of 30 member countries gathered in Hamburg for the yearly CF Europe conference and annual meeting.

Please find below the PowerPoint Presentations and reports we have gathered so far. A full report on the meetings and the missing presentation on new therapies of prof. S. Elborn will be available soon.

CF Europe Annual Meeting, June 7, 2011

• CFE Hamburg 2011 - Round table presentation of the participating member countries
• The PowerPoint Presentation on the EU directive on crossborder healthcare by Karleen De Rijcke
• The PowerPoint Presentation on Cystic Fibrosis Europe, report from 2010-11 and projects from 2011-12 by Karleen De Rijcke
• Letter of thanks to CF Europe President from the Charitable Fund "In the Name of Life," Moscow, Russia.
• The PowerPoint presentation "New therapies in Cystic Fibrosis: Trials, tribulations and challenges" by J Stuart Elborn.

CFE/ECFS Preconference Symposium June 8, 2011
“CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVING QUALITY OF CF-CARE: HOW PATIENTS AND CF-CENTRES CAN WORK TOGETHER”

• The PowerPoint presentation “How state-of-the art therapy can be made available to patients – learning from a recent study on treatment-disparities in Europe.” by Anil Mehta
• The PowerPoint presentation “How to capitalize on the cooperation between care-centres and patient groups to improve quality of care” by Karleen De Rijcke
• The PowerPoint presentation "Transparency: Should CF-care centers ”open their books” and publish treatment outcomes? PRO-debate” by Eric Wendel.
• The PowerPoint presentation "Cystic Fibrosis Care, A Model of Using Transparency of Outcomes Data and Benchmarking to Improve Quality of Care" by Michael Boyle.
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• The PowerPoint presentation "Reaching 'Difficult' Patients: Experiences from a German Intervention Project" by Jochen G. Mainz and Corinna Moos-Thiele.